- Modern historians are perhaps more inclined to view humanism as the earliest stage of development of modernism.
- Humanism as a philosophy today can be as little as an perspective on life or as much as an entire way of life; the common feature is that it is always focused primarily on human needs and interests.
- Modern Humanism is often described as Naturalistic, Ethical, Democratic, or Scientific Humanism — each adjective emphasizing a different aspect or concern which has been the focus of humanistic efforts during the 20th century.
- It was an out growth of liberal theology that has further evolved as a reasonable alternative to religion.
- Modern Humanism is typically naturalistic, eschewing belief in anything supernatural and relying upon the scientific method for determining what does and does not exist. However, although many people dispute the fact that science and religion cannot
co-exist, you can be a humanist and have faith.
So you may ask yourself, is humanism alive today?
The answer is YES! Humanism is all around you! Right now, are you using technology? Are science, medicine, and education a part of your day to day life? All of those things were invented by humans, to make humans progress in civilization and advance as a species.
Humanism is all about celebrating humans, and our own ability to think, reason, deduce, act, love, hate, do right, do wrong, to LIVE.